Truman Library documents [microform], 1945-1956.

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Truman Library documents [microform], 1945-1956.

Selected letters concerning foreign affairs and the Truman doctrine, 1945-1953, including concerns about Greece, Palestine, Puerto Rico, European postwar reconstruction, the International Labour Organization, labor unions, and Latin America; from the papers of Philip M. Kaiser, Joseph M. Jones, Jr., Herschel V. Johnson, and the White House Official File.

1 reel of microfilm (35mm)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7566549

Wisconsin Historical Society Archives

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Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

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Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as the 34th vice president in early 1945. He implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain communist expansion. He proposed numerous liberal domestic reforms, but few were enacted by the Conservative Coalition that dominated Congres...

Kaiser, Philip M., 1913-2007

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Philip Mayer Kaiser (b. 1913-d. May 2007, Washington, D.C.), was former ambassador to Austria, Hungary and Senegal who during the Cuban missile crisis acted to deny the Soviet Union landing rights at airports where its planes might refuel. He served as Assistant Secretary of Labor during the Truman administration, and was the U.S. ambassador to Senegal and Mauritania from 1961 to 1964. President Jimmy Carter named him ambassador to Hungary in 1977, and he played a key role in persuading the Cart...

International Labour Organisation

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The International Labour Organization was established in Geneva in 1919 at the end of the First World War, during the Peace Conference that convened at Paris and Versailles. Its aim was to promote the welfare of workers. From the description of Collection, 1919-1941, 1998. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 70875785 ...

Johnson, Herschel V. (Herschel Vespasian), 1812-1880

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Herschel Vespasian Johnson was born on September 18, 1812, in Burke County. Like most of Georgia's antebellum political lights, Johnson passed through the University of Georgia, graduating in 1834. He took up the law and established prosperous practices in Augusta, Louisville, and finally Milledgeville, the state capital. Ambrose Wright, the future Confederate officer and newspaper journalist, began his study of law in Johnson's Louisville office. In 1844, the same year he moved to Milledgeville...

Jones, Joseph M. (Joseph Marion), 1908-1990

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Author and government official; d. 1990. From the description of Papers, 1947-1948. (Harry S Truman Library). WorldCat record id: 70958952 ...